Efficient location updates, paging and short bursts

摘要

A mobile terminal in a wireless communication network may be one of several modes of operation. When in an idle mode, the mobile terminal may avoid a lengthy random access procedure normally associated with responding to a page from a base station, if the base station includes in the page an indication of a resource that the mobile terminal may utilize when responding to the page. Additionally, the mobile terminal may transmit an efficient location update MAC header to a base station, whether prompted to by a page from the base station or not. Furthermore, without leaving the idle mode or a sleep mode, the mobile terminal may exchange short data burst messages with a base station.

主权项

1. At a mobile terminal in sleep mode in a wireless communication network, a method of requesting uplink resources, said method comprising:
transmitting a request message from the mobile terminal to a base station including:
a byte request field for indicating a number of bytes requested;a connection ID field for indicating an identity of a connection;a field for indicating that said message relates to requesting uplink resources; anda field for indicating whether encryption is used.